East Jerusalem

Israel East Jerusalem Expansion Angers US Officials

AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 07.03.2009 | World


JERUSALEM — Israel plans to build a 200-room hotel next to the Old City of Jerusalem, the Interior Ministry announced Tuesday, drawing a mild pr...

Palestinian Jerusalem Theater Shut Down By Israeli Police

BBC NEWS | Posted 06.29.2009 | World


Israeli police have shut down a Palestinian theatre in East Jerusalem....

Jerusalem 42 Years Later: Where East and West Are Worlds Apart

Hagai El-Ad | Posted 06.21.2009 | World


Hagai El-Ad

Hundreds of Jerusalemites, Israelis and Palestinians, demonstrated together near the Old City's Damascus Gate, protesting the denial of human rights to nearly a third of the city's population.

Netanyahu: Jerusalem Will Not Be Divided

AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 06.21.2009 | World


JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted Thursday that all of Jerusalem will always remain under Israeli sovereignty, taki...

UN: Israel Demolitions Must Cease

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 06.01.2009 | World


The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has issued a report detailing the difficulties facing Palestinians in East Jerusalem who ...

Account From The Set Of "Jerusalem: Center Of The World"

Ray Suarez | Posted 05.01.2009 | World


Ray Suarez

I have always been interested in those places where the membrane between the seen and the unseen is thin -- where human beings feel able to touch the eternal.

Jerusalem Isn't Just for Jews

Hammad Hammad | Posted 04.25.2009 | World


Hammad Hammad

Treating Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem as foreigners who entered Israel is astonishing, since it was Israel that entered East Jerusalem in 1967.

Israel Under Pressure Over Divided Jerusalem

Inter Press Services | Mel Frykberg | Posted 04.24.2009 | World


RAMALLAH, Mar 24 (IPS) - By late Saturday afternoon hundreds of heavily armed Israeli security forces on horseback and on foot had arrested over 20 ...

Israel Trying To 'Judaize' Arab Neighborhoods In Jerusalem

nytimes.com | ISABEL KERSHNER | Posted 01.06.2009 | World


A series of recent Israeli actions in the mainly Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem have raised tensions there, with Palestinian and Israeli critics...

Palestinians Reject West Bank Deal From Israeli Prime Minister

Reuters | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics


Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has rejected an Israeli peace proposal because it does not provide for a contiguous Palestinian state with Jerusal...